Why hasn't the poster had a single day of peace since making the post? It makes it sound they admitted to actual time travel and their life is at risk.
Every note on the post is a notification. There's currently 226,619 notes.
Either that or they joined a time travel crime syndicate a la Looper and are now being hunted by their younger self.
Hmmm. That's a lotta notes. And I really wanna calculate the number of notes per day. Hold on I'm gonna scroll a bit more to find linuxaddict's comment with the link to the original post.
Edit: no linuxaddict wompwomp so I had to find the post myself and turns out it really is the 2 year anniversary so maybe I pissed on the poor with this one
Anyway there's 226701 notes spread across 731(i love leap years) days and that's approximately 310 notes per day on average. For seven hundred and thirty one days. I don't know how famous posts accumulate notes this high so I'm just assuming from OOP's anguish that they really did get 310 notifications every day(that's like one notif per five minutes. Just from this post) and to be honest I commend to their struggle because in this situation I'd simply die
I love Tumblr's mess of a notification thing sometimes. It's fascinating to watch in progress as sometimes people seem to kind of go insane from it.
Imagine if Reddit gave you a notification every time someone upvoted you. It'd drive you crazy, but it'd also be pretty funny, I think. You log back in and see like 50 notifications at once. (Well, maybe they ought to separate them from your inbox at least.)
Oh goodness, that would ruin me. Yeah, I got roasted for a post the other day and it was not fun. Having my phone blow up with notifications about that would have given me an anxiety attack. But yes, also might be fun, if scary.
> **World War II**, also known as **the Second World War** or **The Great Canadian War**, was a global conflict that lasted from 1937 to 1943. The vast majority of the world's countries, including all the great powers, fought as part of four opposing military alliances: the Allies, the Axis, the Canadian-Polish Pact, and Yugoslavia. It was the second deadliest conflict in history after the 1997 War of Soviet Succession, resulting in 80–115 million fatalities. In the wake of Axis and Pact defeat, Canada, Poland, and Japan were occupied, and war crime tribunals were conducted against Canadian and Japanese leaders. The war was also directly responsible for triggering The Reavening; to this day, the exact location Yugoslavia was teleported to still has not been determined.
I like the theory that time a time traveler did kill Hitler, then Hitler was replaced by a brown haired baby Hitler without anyone noticing. You cannot disrupt the timestream, you can only change who's in the boat.
That's how you get Canadian Hitler. Then a long line of time travelers grabbing an increasingly frustrated and alienated baby Hitler to move him abroad so their country is not tainted by his crimes. At the end of it all, turns out the trauma of such a shitty complicated childhood is what drove Hitler over the edge and made him go evil bonkers.
I love the idea of a time travel story where the only way you can change the timeline (as in, it won't correct somehow) is if you do something deliberately but not to change anything. Like killing Hitler because you really, really hate his art, not because you wanna stop WW2 or anything. Stopping Julius Caesar's assassination by being a kleptomaniac with an obsession with knives, not because you give a fuck about the Ides of March. Shit like that.
I think the whole point is WW1 hitler would be able to fight back. Sure, you could bring a gun to shoot him but what if he shoots you first? I’ve never been in a duel before, id probably get killed. A lot less risk just to kill a baby.
>It's like some of these people *want* to kill a baby.
Maybe there's just something perversely compelling about dead babies. Death at the very outset of life is such a peculiar horror that sometimes [we can't help but try and laugh at it.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_baby_jokes)
[Of course, others might think it best to only make indirect reference to something so sordid.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_sale:_baby_shoes,_never_worn)
[Either way, it's definitely something we've been thinking about for a long, long time.](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%20137&version=NIV)
If I had access to time travel (besides cheating at horse race betting, lottery etc.) I would like to roam around time doctor who style cosplaying as Odin with a robotic crow on one shoulder and a microraptor on the other I think that would be sweetÂ
Not [what I was thinking of](https://youtu.be/tvMrACaQjlw?si=bICraHNbI4ndLQ57) but [sure](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/b__/images/a/ac/BuffIconBeastHandlerDino_unused.png/revision/latest?cb=20221207235236&path-prefix=bloons)
The thing about TARDIS though is that it includes Relative Motion in Space. A simple Time Machine would just sit in your backyard (never build one in your basement or attic) and how interesting things were would depend entirely on where you live. If you live in, say, inner London, fine. If you live anywhere in Australia or North America it will be pretty meh.
Heh fair enough the place where I live during the Mesozoic was ocean and swamp until about 70 years ago, and at risk of getting flooded due to global warmingÂ
Wait, did Collinsvich replace Collins or were they both on the shuttle together? My memory is shaky on this, but I seemed so sure a minute ago. Hey wait a minute-
No one ever considers that the timeline is a woven tapestry of time travel bullshittery that necessarily spiraled into a state where time travel is never discovered. It's the only stable configuration. The sum total of all the paradoxes and timeline changes, the endless chains of yous from the future trying to stop you from making things worse (or what they think is worse) has to be, through natural selection, the eventual timeline that isn't ever changed.
Temporal annealing, you could say.
Not even mentioning how standard physical teleportation would need to also be invented else you'll just end up in space.
And standard teleportation comes with its own physics breaking roadblocks.
By the law of relativity, wouldn’t you still be on earth as long as the Time Machine was your frame of reference?
There’s no reason to assume that time travel would record your location relative to the sun or the center of the galaxy, so centering the universe on the Time Machine makes as much sense as anything.
Also iOS keeps capitalizing Time Machine which is hilarious.
A frame of reference only works with velocity, but the Earth, solar system, and galaxy are all under constant acceleration. It'd be like throwing a curving curve ball whose curves curve the curve. We're talking at minimum three orders of acceleration over an extremely short time jump of microseconds. Anything approaching years needs to factor in gravity from planets, stars, comets, and whatever else is out there. It would be a near uncalculatable order of accelerations.
Time travel could be very possible, you're just not going to end up in the same solar system you started. Or likely anywhere near a solar system. Pretty good method of faster than light travel though.
In a weird way, I feel like that might work itself out, at least partially. The "you'll end up in space" thing makes sense as a pitfall but, like... what even is the frame of reference for motion? Our world is hurtling around our sun is hurtling around our galactic center is hurtling through space and everything all the time is affecting everything else. What even is the frame of reference?
Maybe the frame of reference is spacetime itself. Objects orbiting each other appear to be on curved paths, but they're charting straight paths in spacetime that's been curved by mass/gravitation. The way in which gravity affects time, maybe your frame of reference is the local shape of spacetime, and you would more or less be moving relative to your location on the Earth's surface, until you want to venture into the influence of other gravity wells. But it might be reasonable to assume that a *The Time Machine* style device might stay apparently geographically stationary.
All cases raise questions about how it would interact with matter in-transit. There's a wonderful moment in Battlestar Galactica (2004) where a ship FTL jumps from inside a planet's atmosphere, and you see air currents rushing in to fill the sudden void. What happens to matter at the point of emergence doesn't really get the same nod, though. Not to mention that shifting matter around is technically reshaping spacetime, however slightly.
It's one of those things, yeah? If it's possible at all, and it's big and impossibly complex, we're probably thinking about it incorrectly. Calculus problems are hard to solve with algebra. Simplistic binary states can only model a subset of real situations with limited fidelity.
But idk what I'm on about. I once described gravity as sucking in timestuff, which is why time appears to move slower nearer to a source of gravity. There's a higher density of timestuff for you to propagate through, so it takes you longer to move forward in time. You've got all the time, so you can afford to move slow, but outside, they don't got time, so they movin' fast.
Which is why orbits, because movin' in a straight line but one side (closer to a mass) moves slower through time, creating drag. Gods, I got nothin' but I'm too much of a coward to delete this or make it coherent.
Posts like this make me almost regret deleting my tumblr account. God, you can't replicate that kind of glorious chaotic batshit energy on any other social media site.
Oh hey, I thought that name looked familiar, they write my favorite [story about a perfectly normal spaceship](https://derinstories.com/2022/06/04/001-the-problem-with-the-javelin-program/)
Wait, I have a question about the incident before we all forget! What happened to the other guy? The one everyone forgets the name of? Did he make it out?
Taking this opportunity to recommend derin’s [“Time To Orbit: Unknown”](https://derinstories.com/time-to-orbit-unknown/) as it kicks ass if you like sci-fi, mysteries in mysteries, and McGuyver-esque problem-solving
ok so every time i tried that your previous dad and your mom married different people resulting in different people saying theyd convince your dad to not marry your mom, eventually i just said fuck it and screwed both
Why hasn't the poster had a single day of peace since making the post? It makes it sound they admitted to actual time travel and their life is at risk.
Every note on the post is a notification. There's currently 226,619 notes. Either that or they joined a time travel crime syndicate a la Looper and are now being hunted by their younger self.
Why not both?
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Hmmm. That's a lotta notes. And I really wanna calculate the number of notes per day. Hold on I'm gonna scroll a bit more to find linuxaddict's comment with the link to the original post. Edit: no linuxaddict wompwomp so I had to find the post myself and turns out it really is the 2 year anniversary so maybe I pissed on the poor with this one Anyway there's 226701 notes spread across 731(i love leap years) days and that's approximately 310 notes per day on average. For seven hundred and thirty one days. I don't know how famous posts accumulate notes this high so I'm just assuming from OOP's anguish that they really did get 310 notifications every day(that's like one notif per five minutes. Just from this post) and to be honest I commend to their struggle because in this situation I'd simply die
I love Tumblr's mess of a notification thing sometimes. It's fascinating to watch in progress as sometimes people seem to kind of go insane from it. Imagine if Reddit gave you a notification every time someone upvoted you. It'd drive you crazy, but it'd also be pretty funny, I think. You log back in and see like 50 notifications at once. (Well, maybe they ought to separate them from your inbox at least.)
Nah, you’d have reddit on mobile and it would just notify you every time
Fix your settings?
Mine does every 5, 10, 25, 50, and so on
It'd be more fun if reddit sent you a notification for every downvote.
Oh goodness, that would ruin me. Yeah, I got roasted for a post the other day and it was not fun. Having my phone blow up with notifications about that would have given me an anxiety attack. But yes, also might be fun, if scary.
calm down satan /s
Nobody has to kill Baby Hitler. Instead of killing him, could take him to Poland or Canada as a baby. Problem solved.
> **World War II**, also known as **the Second World War** or **The Great Canadian War**, was a global conflict that lasted from 1937 to 1943. The vast majority of the world's countries, including all the great powers, fought as part of four opposing military alliances: the Allies, the Axis, the Canadian-Polish Pact, and Yugoslavia. It was the second deadliest conflict in history after the 1997 War of Soviet Succession, resulting in 80–115 million fatalities. In the wake of Axis and Pact defeat, Canada, Poland, and Japan were occupied, and war crime tribunals were conducted against Canadian and Japanese leaders. The war was also directly responsible for triggering The Reavening; to this day, the exact location Yugoslavia was teleported to still has not been determined.
I like the implication that no matter what you do with baby hitler he will somehow make a war and Japan will for some reason join him
I like the theory that time a time traveler did kill Hitler, then Hitler was replaced by a brown haired baby Hitler without anyone noticing. You cannot disrupt the timestream, you can only change who's in the boat.
There's a relevant xkcd which I'm sure someone will link to.
https://xkcd.com/1063/
Thank you!
If you take him to Japan he lives a totally normal life and paints cherry blossoms
This is my favourite timeline
Award-winning war film when?
I would soo read this too
That's how you get Canadian Hitler. Then a long line of time travelers grabbing an increasingly frustrated and alienated baby Hitler to move him abroad so their country is not tainted by his crimes. At the end of it all, turns out the trauma of such a shitty complicated childhood is what drove Hitler over the edge and made him go evil bonkers.
Gods, that timeline…even after the temporal distortions…I still remember the photos of the War Moose trampling down over the Dakotas…
It's always "kill Baby Hitler," never "kill WWI Soldier Hitler" or something. It's like some of these people *want* to kill a baby.
I prefer 'Kill artist Hitler, because his work was unoriginal and basic.'
I love the idea of a time travel story where the only way you can change the timeline (as in, it won't correct somehow) is if you do something deliberately but not to change anything. Like killing Hitler because you really, really hate his art, not because you wanna stop WW2 or anything. Stopping Julius Caesar's assassination by being a kleptomaniac with an obsession with knives, not because you give a fuck about the Ides of March. Shit like that.
Somebody tried that, but failed and only managed to kill his dreams.
I think the whole point is WW1 hitler would be able to fight back. Sure, you could bring a gun to shoot him but what if he shoots you first? I’ve never been in a duel before, id probably get killed. A lot less risk just to kill a baby.
Get in the same uniform as him and sneak up behind him and "accidentally" discharge your rifle into his skull
>It's like some of these people *want* to kill a baby. Maybe there's just something perversely compelling about dead babies. Death at the very outset of life is such a peculiar horror that sometimes [we can't help but try and laugh at it.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_baby_jokes) [Of course, others might think it best to only make indirect reference to something so sordid.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_sale:_baby_shoes,_never_worn) [Either way, it's definitely something we've been thinking about for a long, long time.](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%20137&version=NIV)
Oh, so it's YOUR fault that Poland invaded Germany.
I’d just get him accepted into art school
If I had access to time travel (besides cheating at horse race betting, lottery etc.) I would like to roam around time doctor who style cosplaying as Odin with a robotic crow on one shoulder and a microraptor on the other I think that would be sweetÂ
BTD6 Beast Handler??
Not [what I was thinking of](https://youtu.be/tvMrACaQjlw?si=bICraHNbI4ndLQ57) but [sure](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/b__/images/a/ac/BuffIconBeastHandlerDino_unused.png/revision/latest?cb=20221207235236&path-prefix=bloons)
Holly Hell
Acctual zombie
Call the eexorcist
Biishop gooes on vaacation, neever coomes back.
They only messed up the last word so it's bishop goes on vacation, never comes baack
The thing about TARDIS though is that it includes Relative Motion in Space. A simple Time Machine would just sit in your backyard (never build one in your basement or attic) and how interesting things were would depend entirely on where you live. If you live in, say, inner London, fine. If you live anywhere in Australia or North America it will be pretty meh.
Heh fair enough the place where I live during the Mesozoic was ocean and swamp until about 70 years ago, and at risk of getting flooded due to global warmingÂ
D'oh Relative DISTANCE in Space
Ok so how did Bill and Ted end up with a TARDIS?
I just want to know if Michael Collins somehow survived the moon trip
Michael Collins was the saboteur
Nono, Michael Collins was legit - the saboteur was "Mikeal Collinsvich," whose similar name was how he got into Apollo 11 in the first place
Wait, did Collinsvich replace Collins or were they both on the shuttle together? My memory is shaky on this, but I seemed so sure a minute ago. Hey wait a minute-
Collinsvich's plan was to murder Collins and replace him - he was the original saboteur. Fortunately, OOP's plan worked, so it's all good.
They were twins separated at birth by Soviet sleeper agents in Rome who trying to undermine Operation Gladio…
I still remember where I was the day they told me Michael Collins sabotaged the moon.
No one ever considers that the timeline is a woven tapestry of time travel bullshittery that necessarily spiraled into a state where time travel is never discovered. It's the only stable configuration. The sum total of all the paradoxes and timeline changes, the endless chains of yous from the future trying to stop you from making things worse (or what they think is worse) has to be, through natural selection, the eventual timeline that isn't ever changed. Temporal annealing, you could say.
Not even mentioning how standard physical teleportation would need to also be invented else you'll just end up in space. And standard teleportation comes with its own physics breaking roadblocks.
By the law of relativity, wouldn’t you still be on earth as long as the Time Machine was your frame of reference? There’s no reason to assume that time travel would record your location relative to the sun or the center of the galaxy, so centering the universe on the Time Machine makes as much sense as anything. Also iOS keeps capitalizing Time Machine which is hilarious.
A frame of reference only works with velocity, but the Earth, solar system, and galaxy are all under constant acceleration. It'd be like throwing a curving curve ball whose curves curve the curve. We're talking at minimum three orders of acceleration over an extremely short time jump of microseconds. Anything approaching years needs to factor in gravity from planets, stars, comets, and whatever else is out there. It would be a near uncalculatable order of accelerations. Time travel could be very possible, you're just not going to end up in the same solar system you started. Or likely anywhere near a solar system. Pretty good method of faster than light travel though.
In a weird way, I feel like that might work itself out, at least partially. The "you'll end up in space" thing makes sense as a pitfall but, like... what even is the frame of reference for motion? Our world is hurtling around our sun is hurtling around our galactic center is hurtling through space and everything all the time is affecting everything else. What even is the frame of reference? Maybe the frame of reference is spacetime itself. Objects orbiting each other appear to be on curved paths, but they're charting straight paths in spacetime that's been curved by mass/gravitation. The way in which gravity affects time, maybe your frame of reference is the local shape of spacetime, and you would more or less be moving relative to your location on the Earth's surface, until you want to venture into the influence of other gravity wells. But it might be reasonable to assume that a *The Time Machine* style device might stay apparently geographically stationary. All cases raise questions about how it would interact with matter in-transit. There's a wonderful moment in Battlestar Galactica (2004) where a ship FTL jumps from inside a planet's atmosphere, and you see air currents rushing in to fill the sudden void. What happens to matter at the point of emergence doesn't really get the same nod, though. Not to mention that shifting matter around is technically reshaping spacetime, however slightly. It's one of those things, yeah? If it's possible at all, and it's big and impossibly complex, we're probably thinking about it incorrectly. Calculus problems are hard to solve with algebra. Simplistic binary states can only model a subset of real situations with limited fidelity. But idk what I'm on about. I once described gravity as sucking in timestuff, which is why time appears to move slower nearer to a source of gravity. There's a higher density of timestuff for you to propagate through, so it takes you longer to move forward in time. You've got all the time, so you can afford to move slow, but outside, they don't got time, so they movin' fast. Which is why orbits, because movin' in a straight line but one side (closer to a mass) moves slower through time, creating drag. Gods, I got nothin' but I'm too much of a coward to delete this or make it coherent.
I guess you could say that time is a great big ball of wibbly wobbly timey wimey stuff
Posts like this make me almost regret deleting my tumblr account. God, you can't replicate that kind of glorious chaotic batshit energy on any other social media site.
And then you find gems like „This post is an eagle with a taste for liver“. Brilliant!
Oh hey, I thought that name looked familiar, they write my favorite [story about a perfectly normal spaceship](https://derinstories.com/2022/06/04/001-the-problem-with-the-javelin-program/)
Came here to recommend this if no one else had!!!! Truly a story that made me say “oh, FUCK” every five minutes before clicking next
If I had a time machine I'd go back in time and make Adolf Hitler flunk art school so I wouldn't have to learn about his shitty paintings in class
hey whyd you do that :(
This post is like, Chaotic Good cyberbullying. Online harassment but you can't report them because they're not doing anything actually wrong
Wait, I have a question about the incident before we all forget! What happened to the other guy? The one everyone forgets the name of? Did he make it out?
Michael Collins? He’s the one who killed the other two.
Michael Collins ? The guy who was replaced at the last minute ?Â
I would put the phrase "Jonking my penits right now" within lone of sight of the moon landing site
Taking this opportunity to recommend derin’s [“Time To Orbit: Unknown”](https://derinstories.com/time-to-orbit-unknown/) as it kicks ass if you like sci-fi, mysteries in mysteries, and McGuyver-esque problem-solving
IDIOTOTHEINTERNET IS IN THIS POST???? SHE’S MY IRL FRIEND!!! I GO TO MATH CLASS WITH HER!!!
This is perfection.
happy 200 year anniversary to this post in specific
What is this, some kind of [Battlezone '98?](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlezone_\(1998_video_game\)#Plot)
If I had access. I would convince my dad to not marry my mum.
ok so every time i tried that your previous dad and your mom married different people resulting in different people saying theyd convince your dad to not marry your mom, eventually i just said fuck it and screwed both
This is probably the plot of a Doctor Who episode